When dual enrollment (high school + college classes) is HARMFUL for admission ?

[ucbalumnus]

@twoinanddone

When I was looking at the policies, I found a few colleges that even considered students with fewer than 20-26 credits to be freshmen, even if those credits were taken after high school graduation. Way back in my own educational life, I needed to transfer and one of the state schools wouldn’t consider freshmen transfers, requiring 26 credits to transfer.

Sometimes, the minimum threshold for transfer admission is greater than the maximum threshold for frosh admission. For example, UCs in California disqualify from frosh admission a student who takes any college courses after the summer immediately after high school graduation but requires that the student complete at least 60 semester units (junior standing) by the time of transfer: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/transfer/minimum-requirements/index.html